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Year 4840 of the Jewish calendar.

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**Rabbi Moshe** ibn Ezra [(bar Rabbi (Yitzchak)], a great sage and poet [(and secular wisdom)], passed away in the year 4840. He composed the book Arugat HaBosem, piyyutim and prayers. [And the book HaAnak, songs and hymns in manuscript, and the book HaTarshish, rhymes like the gemstone tarshish, (and he had three brothers: Rabbi Yitzchak and Rabbi Yosef and Rabbi Yehuda, all great sages, Seder HaKabbalah chapter 39, page 72).] Rabbi Yehuda ben David Pasi called Chayug [(see Yuchsin at the end of Seder HaAmoraim for his time, who established the Holy Language on its rules after it had been forgotten throughout the exile)] lived in this generation. [And perhaps this is the one cited by the Raavad, and he was meticulous and a great poet. (Seder HaKabbalah chapter 39b)] Rabbi Marinus ben Ganach and Rabbi Yonah his son lived in this generation, and this Rabbi Yonah was the teacher of Rabbeinu Yaakov bar Yakir [(see year 4830) and perhaps this is Rabbi Yonah the Meticulous, the Sephardi, whom ibn Ezra mentions in Parshat Vayechi and in many places. (Seder HaKabbalah chapter 39b)].

Rabbi Moshe HaKohen ben Baktiliyah, a meticulous and great poet, lived in this generation. [(Seder HaKabbalah chapter 39b)].

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